100 Years from Now .... you were important in the life of a Child!

"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what your bank account balance was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of car you drove, but the world may be different because you were important in the life of a child."
Lesson Plans, Interventions, Classroom Design and more to use in consultation with teachers.

Effective teachers do not use the same set of practices for every lesson . . good visual reminder when lesson planning.

Instructional strategies diagram

TEACHING PRACTICES~ Effective teachers don't use the same set of practices for every lesson. Great overview of direct, indirect, and interactive instruction, as well as experiential learning and independent study!

YouTube's Teacher channel

YouTube.com/Teachers was created to help teachers use educational YouTube videos to educate, engage and inspire their students. We know how busy teachers can be so we’ve worked with a group of teachers to put together playlists of partner videos that align with common core standards. #education #apps #edtech #teachers #youtube #edshelf

GENERAL RESOURCES - Laura Candler's main Pinterest page with over 30 educational boards - mostly free resources! Repin this to one of your own boards, and it will be easy to find Laura's teaching resources!

Love this Word Wall

classroom collective- sharing site for teaching resources

CLASSROOM IDEAS:) This is like a new teachers bible--I can't wait to dive in!!

One Pinner said: this resource is going to take me FOREVER to explore! TOO MUCH GOOD STUFF!! :) OMG this is like a new teachers bible--I can't wait to dive in!! Pictured is a GREAT bulletin board set up to teach and add synonyms!

Good Ideas, Schools Ideas, Schools Stuff, Sticky Note, First Weeks, Classroom Ideas, Schools Years, Weeks Activities, Back To School

Meaningful first week activities. One of them: write six questions (to do with how to make the classroom and students function to the highest level). Students, in groups of three, spent two minutes at each chart, collaborating and responding to each question on a sticky note.

back to school ideas - Mrs. Robinson's Classroom Blog: Meaningful First Week Activities

Six Classroom Questions to start off the school year! Great back to school ideas.

Six questions to start the year and other first week activities. This is a good idea. I think it can be modified for a high school classroom.

dandelions and dragonflies: What We Have Been Up To...

This is a comprehensive 7 page document that lists and categorizes every single procedure/routine to teach in your classroom. This takes all of the guess work out of your beginning of the year management plan.

Free Technology for Teachers: EduClipper Is Now Open for Beta Users Adam Bellow's new online bookmarking service EduClipper is now open to early beta users. If you signed up back in early June for a beta invite you should now be able to sign into EduClipper and start clipping (bookmarking) your favorite educational resources to your EduClipper boards.

Classroom Twitter Board - Use as Exit Slips??? Made with laminated strips and erasable markers donteatthepaste: classroomcollective: Twitter Door- The kids can tweet about what is happening. There are 30 laminated sentences strips so everyone (including the teacher) has a place to “tweet” on the door.

FUN! Great Exit Slip. Twitter door- have a laminated strip for every student and they get time to update status about something they learned, liked or happened during school that day!

Twitter door- have a laminated strip for every child and they get time to update status about something they learned, liked or happened during school that day! Interesting... Maybe make it another ticket out the door?

Twitter door/ Facebook door- have a laminated strip for every child and they get time to update status about something they learned, liked or happened during school that day! Interesting...that is a really cool idea! A good exit ticket idea.